[Talk-us] [Talk-ca] Great Lakes - coastlines / lakes

[Matthias Julius]

Jason Reid <osm at bowvalleytechnologies.com> writes:

> SteveC wrote:
>> The great lakes are missing off the map!
>>
>> Anyone here able to import them or something magically? If not I'll  
>> turn over to the dev/talk list but I thought people here might be  
>> interested themselves :-)
>
> They show up on osmarender, I haven't checked the data yet but its 
> possible they are entered as natural=water instead of coastline. I'll 
> take a look at this over lunch if no one else gets to it first.

They are coastlines.

They show up in osmarender because osmarender actually uses OSM data
to render coastlines.  Mapnik uses data that was imported from another
source and I guess this did not contain the great lakes.

Matthias